Porter, Katherine AnneA Christmas Story Delacorte Press, New York 1967 - INSCRIBED on the title page in memory of the book's illustrator Ben Shahn, who died in 1969: " Katherine Anne Porter / Remembering good artist Ben Shahn / February 1975." Katherine Anne Porter's endearing account of Christmas with her niece, first published in Mademoiselle magazine and issued here as a book with numerous illustrations by Ben Shahn. First Delacorte edition, first printing. Square 24mo (5 3/4 inches / 15 cm), unpaginated. Fine in an unclipped dust jacket designed by Ben Shahn. Small stray mark and tiny tear to rear panel, light edge wear. A beautiful copy. This book was issued simultaneously as a limited edition, which was later found to be signed by autopen, and as a trade edition. Our copy is the trade edition. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Rummonds, Richard, compiled and annotated by Gabriel Precio [aka Richard-Gabriel Price Rummonds]1945-1965 : an evaluation of two decades of self-deception compiled and annotated by Gabriel Precio; Plain Wrapper Press: Eleven; part two: book six, the S.S.R.S. stories Buenos Airies: Plain Wrapper Press, July, 1967. xv, 63p., appendices, fine first edition limited to 32 copies designed and printed by hand from machine set Simoncini type faces on French 'Canson' papers by Gabriel Precio at the Plain Wrappers Press, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in July, 1967, twenty copies numbered 1-20 (this is #14) were presented to friends, lovers and 'acquaintances'. Twelve copies numbered I through XII were presented to collaborators and family. This copy was presented to Jack Pooler. Marbled endpapers, Allen Tate frontis drawing. Rubricated titles. Numbering and name of recipient in hand by Rummonds/Precio. Tan paper boards over dark gray cloth backing. Richard-Gabriel Price Rummonds. One of the great handpress printers of modern times. Born, raised and educated in California (Sacramento and at UC Berkeley) he started his press in Quito, Ecuador and moved to Argentina in 1967. Thence to Verona, Italy until 1982. The book is a collection of short stories about people Rummonds knew at a library where he worked and supposedly were written for Mark Schorrer's [sic] 106A creative writing class at Berkeley in 1953. Schorer's critiques comprise the appendices. Five copies located in OCLC as of 1/2017.

Peter BogdanovichFritz Lang in America Studio Vista Ltd, London 1967 - WARMLY INSCRIBED BY FRITZ LANG on the half-title. A solid copy to boot of the 1967 1st wrappered edition. Tight and VG, with light creasing along the spine and very small bookseller stamp at the half-title. 16mo, part of the wonderful Studio Vista film series issued out of London. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

Berry, WendellA Place on Earth New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1967. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by Wendell Berry on the front free end paper. The Kentucky author's scarce second novel, a tale set in Port William, Ky., during the final months of World War II. Thick 8vo, 550 pages. Near Fine, with some slight soiling to the top and fore edges, in a Near Fine dust jacket that has a tiny tear to the front panel's upper edge, some toning to the flaps, and light soiling to the rear panel. First editions in collectible condition are scarce in the market and signed copies are even more elusive. A beautiful copy of Berry's second novel. SCARCE.

Hoffman, Abbie; Metesky, George (Pseudonym)Fuck the System New York: Privately Printed, 1967. Paperback. Very Good. First edition. 30 pp. Stapled b/w wraps. Near Fine with a bit of age-toning and a few faint stains to wraps, worn along spine. A rare manual of mischief, as advertised, but more than that a compendium of free goodies available around and about New York City, from provocative Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman under the pseudonym of the famous "Mad Bomber" George Metesky. It was his first book, a prototype for the much better known Steal This Book.

VAN GULIK, R H THE GIBBON IN CHINA. AN ESSAY IN CHINESE ANIMAL LORE. Leiden, Holland: E. J. Brill, 1967., 1967. First edition. First edition. Quarto. Cloth, gold gilt stamping on front cover and spine, [8], 123 pp., frontis., preface by the author, list of abbreviations, introduction, numerous illustrations, map, index, addenda and corrigenda. Van Gulik died in September 1967, and during May of that year he finished his last book, THE GIBBON IN CHINA. He had kept monkeys since his youth and anyone who ever interviewed him mentions this unusual company. He couldn't keep gibbons in Holland because the climate is too drafty and moist for them to survive. They thrived in his oriental homes and Van Gulik was very close to them, regarding them highly as pet owners of dogs and cats tend to do. A gibbon is a primate, can walk on its hindlegs, have no tail, and like to reason. They are fairly friendly and the Chinese were aware of the gracious animal and signal its peculiarities in their literature. An excellent study of the gibbon in China. Fine copy including the 33 1/3 gramophone record of the musical calls of the gibbon in a pocket attached to the rear pastedown sheet. Van Gulik was a Dutch diplomat to China for many years and his writings on China and its culture are extensive. A choice item and perhaps the most comprehensive study on the subject. Scarce.

Reich, Steve (composer, performer); Max Neuhaus (composer, performer); Philip Corner, Jon Gibson, Arthur Murphy, James Tenney (performers)Four Pianos: Three Evenings of Music by Steve Reich at Park Place Gallery in New York City (Original poster for the 1967 performance) Park Place Gallery, New York 1967 - Poster advertising an early performance by Steve Reich at Park Place Gallery in New York on March 17, 18, and 19, 1967, also featuring Max Neuhaus performing and "distributing" a new piece called "BI-PRODUCT" (currently listed on Neuhaus' website as "By-Product," in contravenance of the poster).In 1967 Steve Reich wrote a prototype piece, "Slow Motion Sound" that involved two separate pairs of hands clapping out of phase and coming into phase over the course of 144 bars. Though it was the foundation of all his work that would follow, it was not recorded until 1994 (by Chris Hughes). Reich worked the same concept into his first "traditional" piece, "Four Organs" in 1970.This performance represents a bridge between "Slow Motion Sound" and "Four Organs," only conceived as "Four Pianos" instead. "Four Pianos" was never formally recorded, only performed.Texas composer Max Neuhaus was in the 1960s a renowned percussionist and interpreter of contemporary music who at this point was moving toward his ultimate identity as a pioneer of artistic work in sound, and would become one of the innovators of sound works and the concept of sound installations.Blue card stock with printing in black, 7 x 10 inches (18 x 25.5 cm). Near Fine with just a touch of fading at the edges.

PAOLOZZI, Eduardo.Moonstrips Empire News. Volume I. London: Editions Alecto,, 1967. 100 photo-lithographs and screenprints in colour on wove papers and acetate (38 x 25.4 cm). Housed in the black acrylic presentation box by Harault Studios, as issued. Prints in fine condition. Top edge of box lacking and two cracks to centre panel. Limited edition, from an edition of 500. The set includes eight prints signed and numbered by the artist in pencil, as called for. Paolozzi began work the project in 1965, creating the volume from his collection of twentieth century ephemera. It was screenprinted at Kelpra Studios and features introductory text by Christopher Finch.

HUDSON, ROCKPhotograph Signed, black and white matte finish, 8 X 10 Hudson is shown in bust length profile, smiling. To the left of his image on the light background, he inscribes and signs in red felt tip pen, "For...Best Wishes, Rock Hudson." Two punch holes in each corner. Docketed on verso, "Ice Station Zebra - MGM October 1967."

Disch, Thomas M.The Genocides Ronald Whiting & Wheaton, London 1967 - First British (and first hardcover) edition, presentation copy with a nice signed inscription by Disch to fellow author Judith Merril on the front free endpaper: "To Judy Merril / Because, after all, it was / for the blurb and scarcely at all / for what ? it that this is / in hard covers today. Thanks for the / nicest review I'm sure it will ever be / my good fortune to read -- unless we / manage to hit it off the same way again! / Gratefully but nevertheless, / affectionately, Tom Disch." A beautiful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket is rich in color with NO chips or tears. The book is bound in the publisher's red patterned paper-covered boards and is in great shape. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy SIGNED by the author. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

Konigsburg, E. L.From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Atheneum Books, 1967 Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. First Edition stated on the copyright page. Price clipped. Negligible rubbing on the dust jacket and very light soiling, else fine. Something has been marked over in black ink on the front free endpaper. A very nice copy.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Miller, Henry, American novelist (1891-1980).Autograph letter signed. Pacific Palisades, 14. II. 1967. 1967. Large 4to. 2 pp. To a photographer named Bishop: "Got your letter and samples of photo experiments. You must not think because I used 'glum + sombre' that I was disparaging your work. It's simply that I can't stand the 'sad gorilla' aspect of myself which I often see in photos. Of the hundreds of photos people have taken from me there are only about a half-dozen I really like (when you come again I'll show you my favourite one). In general photography leaves me cold. I never used a camera in my life. Nor will I in the future. Now and then in magazines I find photos I like - could be in a good or cheap magazine. These experimental ones you just sent - I must confess they too leave me cold. Too slick for my taste. Too commercial. But I'm prejudiced - so don't take it hard. I hung out with advertising men, salesmen and artists both, when in my twenties - and became thoroly [!] disgusted with everything which they found exciting [...]". - On stationery with printed letterhead.

Sayers, DorothyTyped Letter Signed about Lord Peter Wimsey, Detective Witham, Essex, [England]: Typed Letter Signed, 1967. Letter Matted & Framed with a B&W Photo of Sayers. Very Good +. Typed Letter SIGNED by Dorothy Sayers dated April 16, 1967, 1-page (8" x 10"; previously folded), 8vo, on personal letterhead stationery to Mr. Stewart Dick, of Barnes, N.W. Handsomely framed, matted with a photo of Sayers, and glazed (19 1/2" x 17").The author expresses her thanks to Mr. Dick for his flattering remarks about her use of Scottish details in her Peter Wimsey detective-mystery series. Sayers gives informative details about how she had borrowed painterly details used by her character "Ferguson" from a very good female fartist friend--now deceased. Framed, glazed, and matted with a photograph of Dorothy Sayers and a Typed Letter with Exceptional Content SIGNED by the famous mystery writer explaining how she used details in her Peter Wimsey mysteries that she had drawn from local color which she had experienced during excursions into Scotland or borrowed from a very close friend who was an artist.Letter in Very Good Plus condition, though there is a small 1" light tan [tape?] stain in the upper right of the TLS; a slightly noticeable verical fold, and a few minor smudges. Signed "Dorothy Sayers" in a clear pen flourish.Attractively matted and framed letter and photograph of the famous mystery writer! Extra Shipping charges may be necessary.

Wise, Robert (director); William Fairchild (screenwriter); Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna (starring)Star! (Original screenplay for the 1968 film, signed by director Robert Wise) Twentieth Century-Fox, Los Angeles 1967 - Final Draft Script for the 1967 film. SIGNED by director Robert Wise on the title page, along with a few different date notations at the top right corner of same, between 1966 and 1967.Nominated for seven Academy Awards. Julie Andrews stars in this biopic, about the onstage and offstage life of actress Gertrude Lawrence. 185 sets were built for the film, featuring extravagant musical production numbers with Andrews acting, singing, and dancing.Blue titled wrappers, noted as Final on the front wrapper, production No. 65, dated January 26, 1967. Title page present, dated January 26, 1967, noted as Final, with credit for screenwriter Fairchild. 210 leaves, mimeograph, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 2-8-67 and 2-24-67. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus with light wear to the yapped edges, internally bound with two gold brads. Hirschhorn, p. 392. [Attributes: Signed Copy; Soft Cover]

Ludwig Harigdas fussballspiel, ein stereophones hörspiel [the game of football; a stereophonic play]. Edition Hansjörg Mayer 1967 - HARIG (Ludwig). das fussballspiel, ein stereophones hörspiel [the game of football; a stereophonic play]. First and limited edition, an artist&#146;s book. Large 4to. (32 x 33 cm.), [40pp.], ring bound into the original publisher&#146;s orange Dayglo stiff paper boards, titles in black, German text. One of 200 numbered copies signed by the artist on the colophon. Stuttgart. Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1967. Boards a bit marked with a few tears. Very rare in both commerce and institutions with one copy only in OCLC and that in Australia, at Macquarie,who describe it as a &#147;.radio playscript in German&#148;. Harig, like Gysin, was a permutational poet who work with radio and adding, or perhaps collaging in, sampled sound. He is much influenced by Queneau and he has translated his work into German. The publisher produced at least three other books in the same format with variant Dayglo coloured boards, all are highly collectable. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Soft Cover]

R S. Churchill and Martin GilbertWinston S.Churchill:The Official Biography:Companion Volumes 1 to V:13 Volumes. Heinemann, London 1967 - First Edition:First Printing:A 13 Volume First Edition set of the complete Companion Volumes all in Fine/Near Fine condition complete with Dustjackets in similar condition.The three Companion Volume IV's and the Companion Volume V part 2 are still housed in there original cardboard delivery boxes so they are in absolute mint condition.Overall a Fine/Near Fine 13 Volume First Edition one of the best sets I have seen offered with FREE worldwide shipping. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

STONE RobertHall of Mirrors 1967 - STONE, Robert. A Hall of Mirrors. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. Octavo, original half black and half gray cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. $1600.First edition of Stone&#146;s first novel, inscribed by him on the half-title: "For Bob Lighter / With every best wish, / Robert Stone."This story of three young Americans whose lives intersect in New Orleans at the end of Mardi Gras in 1962 announced the arrival of a major new talent, who lived up to his early promise with the critically acclaimed novels Dog Soldiers (1974, National Book Award), A Flag for Sunrise (1981) and Outerbridge Reach (1992). "Stone&#146;s position as a leading novelist has been well earned for the skill with which he imbues the novel of action with moral and political dimensions" (Stringer, 646). Dust jacket with very light edgewear. A near-fine copy. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

BLAKE, William.Facsimile of Milton: A Poem. Clairvaux, Jura, France: The Trianon Press for The William Blake Trust,, 1967. Tall quarto. Original brown quarter morocco, marbled sides, titles gilt to spine, top edge gilt. Housed in the publisher's marbled slipcase. Colour illuminated facsimiles achieved by collotype and stencil throughout. Trivial rubbing to ends, otherwise fine. First edition thus, publisher Arnold Fawcus's copy, number 1 on 380 copies thus, from a total edition of 426 numbered copies printed on Arches rag paper to match that used by Blake. This copy, numbered 1 in the series, derives from the Trianon Press Archive, from the estate of Trianon publisher and founder Arnold Fawcus. Blake's Milton is the second-longest and penultimate of Blake's illuminated books, and contains the lyrics, "And did those feet in ancient time...", that would come to be sung as the hymn "Jerusalem".